The book was excellent. I'll definatly go see the movie although i'm a bit worried that it might suck. I generally like Brad Pitt movies but the fact that this movie kept getting rewritten, pushed back and pushed back some more makes me nervous.

Everything I've read the movie has been a mess. Heard it was $200 million over budget, had refilms, and rewrites, and I guess they got raided by the police in Budapest. If they are bringing people in to rewrite the ending of the movie... at the end of the movie?

I hope they pull it off, looks cool, but we'll see.

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JSeahawks wrote:The book was excellent. I'll definatly go see the movie although i'm a bit worried that it might suck. I generally like Brad Pitt movies but the fact that this movie kept getting rewritten, pushed back and pushed back some more makes me nervous.

Hopefully it will be good.

Your statement kind of reminds me of Starship Troopers. The book was cool. The (first) movie did it justice like total recall did...I've never read the book of wwz; but the commercials look cool! I think BP is a pretty good actor too.

I haven't read the book, so I don't care about that. The movie was decent. Plenty of Zombie tropes, but a few somewhat original things in there, too. Pitt was good, although his character should have died several times. the story was good, and the action was frantic at times. I liked it. A good popcorn movie. Sort of a cross between Contagion and 28 days later.

Zebulon Dak wrote:I enjoyed the book. I love Brad. Movie kinda looks way overboard (and obviously quite detached from the story in the book). I'll see it but I'm not going in with super high expectations.

+1

I enjoy ruining threads by making them about personal attacks and then commenting about how personal attacks make the other person's argument invalid.

I went in with somewhat low expectations, trying to be fair because I knew it wouldn't be able to follow the source material too closely. Still largely disappointed. It's not bad, though Brad Pitt reached levels of ridiculously unlucky/lucky. Stumbling upon Jerusalem on THAT day, catching THAT plane, etc.

I didn't hate it, but disappointed we won't get geopolitical thriller version of the actual book.